Imagine being able to override Mother Nature and hand-pick the physical appearance and intellectual traits of your unborn child. Well, thanks to modern science, what may seem far-fetched now could be

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2006年

[00:03.24]Nature and Nurture [00:07.63]Part Two [00:10.84]Listening-Centered Activities [00:15.16]Listening I [00:19.40]Exercise 1 [00:24.16]Directions: [00:27.58]Listen to the passage and answer the following questions. [00:33.80]Although twins have

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 新编大学英语听力浙大版

[00:05.49]Why are some people left-handed? [00:09.09]Scientists have been trying to answer that question for many years. [00:14.32]Research has shown that ninety percent of people naturally use their right hands for most tasks. [00:22.94]But hundreds

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 美国英语听力80篇

梦游症是会遗传的。 Alice: Hello, I'm Alice Stephen: And I'm Stephen. Alice: And this is 6 Minute English! This week were talking about sleepwalking. Have you ever walked in your sleep, Stephen? Stephen: I dont think so, but Ive been known to

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 一起听英语

JUDY WOODRUFF: As Vice President Biden said earlier, innovations in genetics could be crucial to finding cures for diseases like cancer. One of the most significant developments in this field is the newly discovered ability to modify the very genes i

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈健康系列

Lonely bug NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dima:Hello and welcome to this edition of 6 Minute English with me, Dima Kostenko Rebecca: and me, Rebecca Byrne. Dima:Today we'll have some useful words and phrases used in science and

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

Why Do Mosquitoes Choose to Bite You? 为什么蚊子会叮你? Mosquitoes have an extraordinary ability to target humans far away and fly straight to their unprotected skin. Regrettably, mosquitoes can do more than cause an itchy wound. Some mosquit

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What Does It Feel Like to Be Really Old Knowing Death Is Imminent? 离死亡不远的老人都有哪些感受? 获得165好评的回答@ Dee Dees I think a better question would be when is one old? I just turned 70, look 55, feel 30, and have no ac

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

US scientists have stripped life back to its bare essentials creating a synthetic microbe with the absolute minimum genetic information needed to grow and reproduce. 美国科学家将生命的多余部分剔除,只留下最基本的要素,由此创

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

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发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语学习方法

How one company is using artificial intelligence to develop a cure for cancer 人类能否在两三年内治愈癌症? Could we be just two or three years away from curing cancer? Niven Narain, the president of Berg, a small Boston-based biotech fi

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

身边有这么一些人,看见熟人都会张口喊一句那谁!然后盯着人家半天叫不出名字。这世界上还有那么一些人,他们无法辨认别人的容貌,就算是每天相见的熟人,他们也认不出来。如果说前

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

After celebrating her 60th year on the throne in style this past week, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II can now look forward to breaking some more records. She is already, at 86, Britain's oldest monarch (were she to die now, her son would immediately be

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Autism 自闭症 Why it's not Rain Woman 为什么它不是雨女 Women have fewer cognitive disorders than men do because their bodies are better at ignoring the mutations which cause them 与男性相比,患有认知障碍的女性较少,因为她

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Science and technology 科学技术 The nature of humanity 人类本质 What's a man? 什么是人类 Studies of brain genetics are starting to reveal what makes humans human 大脑遗传研究,为你解开人之所以为人的奥秘 THE problem wi

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Science and technology 科学技术 Social status and health 社会地位与健康 Misery index 贫困指数 Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why 社会地位低对身体不好,生物学家开始理解此

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Next time you raise an eyebrow at the views of your partner, friend, sibling or colleague, remember they could be helping to make you smarter. 下一次当你被伴侣、朋友、兄弟姊妹或同事的观点惊到时,请记住他们可能会帮你变

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Books and Artts; Book review; 文艺;书评; Conundrums of science; 科学谜题; What is it for? 科学究竟有什么用? Scinece in the 20th century and beyond; by Jon Agar; 20世纪后科学;乔艾格著; SCIENCE works with problems b

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth. 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。 They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms. 它们已经存在数十亿年了,它们是单细胞微

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(178) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Cancer genetics 癌症遗传学 Gene therapy 基因疗法 Genetic mutations predict which cancers will respond to treatment 基因突变将预测某种治疗会对哪些癌症起作用 THE International Cancer Genome Consortium, an alliance of labora

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合